Release: Amazon Simple Storage Service on 2010-07-06

This release introduces bucket policies. Bucket policies is an access management system you use to set access permissions across buckets, objects, and sets of objects. This functionality supplements and in many cases replaces access control lists.

These release notes provide a summary of all New Features, Resolved Issues, and Known Issues
in this version of the Amazon Simple Storage Service.

New Features

The following table describes the new feature in this release.

Feature

Description

Bucket Policies

Bucket policies provide access control to buckets and objects—based on a variety of conditions. You can use a single, unified mechanism to base them on Amazon S3 operations, requestors, resources, or even aspects of a request, such as the IP address. This functionality supplements and in many cases
replaces access control lists.